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[change] Events
- 1974 - India tests nuclear weapons.
- 1980 - Mount St. Helens erupts.
[change] Births
- 1920 - Pope John Paul II
- 1962 - Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer
[change] Deaths
- 1799 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
- 1807 - John Douglas, Anglican bishop (b. 1721)
- 1808 - Elijah Craig, important to the invention of bourbon (b. 1738?)
- 1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
- 1909 - George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
- 1910 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer, composer (b. 1821)
- 1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
- 1956 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
- 1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives (b. 1880)
- 1975 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
- 1980 - Ian Kevin Curtis, British musician, singer/lyricist with Joy Division (b. July 15, 1956)
- 1981 - William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Daws Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
- 1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (b. 1933)
- 1995 - Alexander Godunov, ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
- 1995 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor (b. 1903)
- 1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
- 1999 - Betty Robinson, Olympic runner (b. 1911)
- 2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Anna Santisteban, organizer of the Miss Universe contest (b. 1914)
- 2003 - Barb Tarbox, anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
- 2004 - Elvin Jones, jazz drummer (b. 1927)
